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HMS Nymphe (1866)

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HMS Dryad at anchor, with sails airing
HMS Nymphe's sister-ship, HMS Dryad
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Nymphe
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Laid down1865[1]
Launched24 November 1866
Commissioned1867
FateSold in December 1884
General characteristics
TypeScrew Sloop
Displacement1,574 tons
Length187 ft (57 m)
Beam36 ft (11 m)
Draught17 ft (5.2 m)[2]
Installed power
Propulsion
  • Three-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail planBarque-rigged
Speed13 knots (24 km/h)
Complement150 (170 after armament converted)
Armament
  • As built:
  • 2 × 7-inch (6½-ton) muzzle-loading rifled guns
  • 2 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns
  • After conversion:
  • 9 × 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns[1]

HMS Nymphe was an Amazon-class sloop, of the Royal Navy, built at the Deptford Dockyard and launched on 24 November 1866.[3] She served in the East Indies and Australia, and was sold in 1884.

Design

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Designed by Edward Reed,[1] the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction, the hull was built of oak, with teak planking and fir decks, and she was equipped with a ram bow.[1]

Propulsion

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Propulsion was provided by a three-cylinder horizontal single-expansion steam engine by Maudslay, Sons & Field driving a single 15 ft (4.6 m) screw.[1]

Sail Plan

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All the ships of the class were built with a barque rig.[1]

Armament

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The class was designed with two 7-inch (180 mm), 6½-ton muzzle-loading rifled guns mounted on slides on centre-line pivots, and two 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns on broadside trucks. Dryad, Nymphe and Vestal were rearmed in the early 1870s with an armament of nine 64-pounder muzzle-loading rifled guns, four each side and a centre-line pivot mount at the bow.[1]

History

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She initially commenced service on the East Indies Station in 1867, before returning to England in 1871 for paying off. Nymphe was refitted, re-armed and placed in reserve. She started service on the Australia Station in March 1875.[3] She left the Australia Station in August 1878, returned to England and was paid off in 1879.

Fate

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She was sold from Chatham Dockyard in February 1885 to Castle and Sons, Vauxhall, Surrey for £3,745. She was taken to Vauxhall and broken up.[3][4]

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Winfield (2004) p. 290
  2. ^ a b "Cruisers at Battleships-Cruisers website". Retrieved 17 September 2008.
  3. ^ a b c Bastock, p. 64.
  4. ^ "Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 31372. London. 17 February 1885. col C, p. 5.

References

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  • Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.

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